Mthatha looks beautiful from above but people on the ground were not going to fall for Fikile Mbalula using the ANC classical electioneering tactic.

Fikile Mbalula, on Wednesday evening, took to Twitter in his regular Razzmatazz fashion, to put in a late shift of electioneering.

Fikile Mbalula boasts ANC progess in improving rural areas

The main objective for the ANC’s Head of Elections was to remind South Africans of the efforts the ruling party has made to improve the lives of many South Africans who live in rural areas.

“Government recognised the need to transform rural areas. Building and replacing mud schools, connecting rural areas with roads, connecting homes to the national electricity grid – while more needs to be done for rural areas, we will recognise progress made and demand more”, he wrote.

GOVERNMENT recognized the need to transform rural areas, building and replacing mud schools, connecting rural areas with roads, connecting homes to the national electricity grid – while more needs to be done for rural areas, we will recognize progress made and demand more pic.twitter.com/UjwJmFpNoY

Twitter does not fall for Mbalula’s electioneering

Mbalula brandished aerial shots of Mthatha, a rural area in the greater parts of the Eastern Cape. Some of those who were wary of the triggers of this tweet questioned it. One user, @CommissarXalisa, replied to Mbalula, stating that

“Even Transkei villages where there’s no transport when it rains. Ballot papers will somehow reach such areas. If it means using helicopter. That helicopter can’t come to fetch a dying person who needs medical care pronto.”

Mbalula, replying to the users’ scepticism of his tweets, cited that

“most rural communities have seen service delivery reached them in the years with electricity connections to the Nat Grid, receiving social grants and having poor kids on free basic and now higher education, more needs to be done agreed, but it’s not all bleak.”

The ANC is surely gearing up to return to its two-thirds majority rule in the country as the 2019 general elections draw ever so close.